Combination agricultural implement.



1. HOLLANDER,

COMBINATION AGRICULTURAL IMPLEMENT.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 26,1912.

fixtented Mar. 4;, 1 1S.

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wTACUB A. HOLLAIIBEE,

COMBINATIQN AERICU IMPLi To (dim/m z'z l/m 2 072661 21 Beit known tl1at,I,lAoon A. a. suhjeet of the Queen of the Jetherlands, residing at Cincinnati, in the county oi Hamilton and State of Ohio, have inn-lite. certain ne and useful lmpi'orem uts in COlDiJl'I'l-t l ion Agricultural l mp lez'oents, at which the iollow ng 1s a specifiratiou.

'isl v n'rvent-ion relates to conilnnatiou agrrh cultural implements. and has for its oi;-

ject. the provision of an agricultural imple ment comprising a head and a series of tools therein arranged to be adjustal'ily placed in said head for locating any of said tools in position of use, or for placing a plurality of said tools in cooperating relation for forming a composite or two-ended tool, while maintaining all said tools either in positions of or in idle relation in said head.

My combination agricultural implement is 1' use, for

l desired to agricultural pursuits where it have nuu'iber of tools ready for convenior campers 'ient and. iMei-changeable u for other pur usetas a gardening tool, am. poses.

The invention will understood from the folh and elailns, and from the :lz-awi latter: 1

Figure 1 a side elevation of my ini- PI'OYQCl derive showing the shin'el-tool in 'msition for use. Fig. 2 an edge elevation of my improved device showing" the show-L tool in'positiou for i e as a shovel or spade,

Further readily description age, in which the-piok-tool in pos ion for use as a pick,

and the gin-tool placed in position of nonuse, the arc-tool and shovel-tool being shown in co-related positions in dotted lines for use as a inattoelt. v Fig. 3 isa detail, partlyin side elevation. and partly in section on the line 3+8 of Fig. 2. Figs. '1- to 8 inclusive are perspective *iews showing the head-end of the implement with the tools arranged in Yariousp'ositions for use or i e relations. Fig. 9 isa side elevation of the head-end of in? improved device, with the tools arranged iu closed relations. Fig. 10 a, perspective View of the tan L-head of-one of the tools, the tool heing'broken awayl 11 IS a cross-section of the same on the line.

11-l1 of Fig. 10. Fig. 12 is a cross-seetion of the same on the line l2-l2iof 10; and, Fig. 13 is a plan View of the blank from which the bifurcated head if struck up.

21 is a bifurcated head. This hi'liircated run";

Speeifieetion oi Latte T"? m p amen"; wa at time MUS .lil l li iw 'allifio O15 CINCIHNATI,

is Penm- PatentetiMai: tofigeeo.

head struck up trnn a blank a of sheet metal. for forming s i-tines 22, 23, having ta :gheads sti ielcup thereon their outer ends. these tang-heads being provided with apertures 26, 2'3, havi fig coincident.axes, and alternate elevations 2S andade jxre 21 arranged radial I about said apertures, The blank for the --head its inner end :l'oruufd up for forniii'ig a tube provided with a longitudinal slit extending l m; g'itudinall v thrmighout thelength (if-the luhe between the longitudinal projections of finii'l tines at one side of said, tube, the opposite side of said tulle being integral ll? is a hatulle having a reduced end 33 received in said tube, said tube hci so rrurmt at its inner end to said. handle, as by means of a rivet 34-.

The tools a re exemplified by an art-tool 3G.

a pi zlc-to0l 37, and" a shovel-tool 3 The shovel-tool 1H shown proyuied with saW- teeth 35) at onelongitudinal edge thereof and with a cutting edge't) at the other ion gitiulinal edge thereof. Each of thesetools is prmlderl with a taugyhead Ti ie a. tool and pink-tool are shown integral. with their tang-heads, white the. 'ei-tool is shown secured in a slot rivets 2 Each of the tanghea an apertin'e't l auil e prowided. with a if depressions -16 which. are shown ioeated rte dially about the? aperture, The elevations and depressions of the varimis-tang-heads coi perate with one another. A hoit 4-7is received through the apertures, nut 48 thereonelamping the tang heads together.

All of the tools are at all times located in the hi'l' urcated "head ready for adjustments to positions ofuse or nonmee .eachht the tools being arranged to he. adjusted separately. Having the tools thus arranged also permits adjustment of the same into such. re- 7 latmns that plurality of the tools may he shovel. In each of Figs. 4-, 5 and 6 the tools are shmvn adjusted into cobperating i'Qh-flim! for use as a combined tool, a inattoclc,:fhown as haying various end cutting edges at the respective ends of thehead pick and.

[unitary implement, and l'neans for 01111111 i ing said tang heads together so asto maint tum said tools in such adjusted positions. l In testimony whereof, I have hereunto t subscribed my name in the presence of two Il subseriliing Witnesses. I l l l l JACOB A. I-IOLLTLNDER.

\Vitnesses (Jon NT Sot'imvon'rn, THERESA SILBER. 

